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as department of justice employees is to enforce federal law. >> do you agree with the federal law? do you agree the federal law should remain that -- pot use and -- smoking, trafficking, selling, administering taxes on, pot use, should all be illegal state to state? >> well, listen, that law represents value judgment of congress as to what is right important the american people. so -- you asked me whether or not i had personal views about it, i certainly do. as a general manner it does represent the will of the people through the actions by congress. i personally believes the a mistake. i certainly am -- being a former state official of texas, certainly believe in the rights of the states to make these kind of decisions for their own people. but i -- i -- here we do have -- a field you can argue has been preempted by the federal government, regulatory scheme that has been in place important decades. we have -- the dea whose sole job is to go after these kinds of drugs. and so -- i think this is an issue that's ultimately going find its way to the supreme court and there are various
as department of justice employees is to enforce federal law. >> do you agree with the federal law? do you agree the federal law should remain that -- pot use and -- smoking, trafficking, selling, administering taxes on, pot use, should all be illegal state to state? >> well, listen, that law represents value judgment of congress as to what is right important the american people. so -- you asked me whether or not i had personal views about it, i certainly do. as a general manner it...
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headed in their direction and now, new questions about whether they may have actually broke on the law here. our coverage continues this morning with cecilia vega who's in sydney, australia. >> reporter: boy, you know the word tragedy is on every front page in sydney and those are the faces of those two djs. they haven't spoken publicly since this joke went so wrong. not just the mounting headlines. >> we have got another huge, huge show tonight. >> the two australian djs who radio prank took a tragic turn, soon may have to face australian police. if they illegally recorded a phone call to the hospital where kate middleton was being treated for morning sickness. their station boss says no laws were broken. >> we're very confident that we haven't done anything illegal. >> when is a good time to come and visit her, because i'm the queen sf. >> mel grieg and michael christian are in a fragile emotional state. the pair is now seeking the help of counselors. the djs are in hiding. their facebook and twitter accounts are at dark. criticism goes on. on the streets of sydney, australians we me
headed in their direction and now, new questions about whether they may have actually broke on the law here. our coverage continues this morning with cecilia vega who's in sydney, australia. >> reporter: boy, you know the word tragedy is on every front page in sydney and those are the faces of those two djs. they haven't spoken publicly since this joke went so wrong. not just the mounting headlines. >> we have got another huge, huge show tonight. >> the two australian djs who...
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one of the children elmer held 12 years ago is now his own son-in-law. >> it was unique. especially at first. >> reporter: it was all discovered by accident, when chris byrd got engaged to elmer's mother, liz. chris' mother was pulling out old photos. when she looked at santa, something clicked. or in this case, jingles. >> she gave me a call, looking at an old santa picture. it looks like liz's dad, elmer. >> i knew it was my dad. i remember going to the mall that year and taking a picture with him. >> reporter: the year was 1999, the first time elmer worked at the maplewood mall in minneapolis. >> my parents wanted a picture with my sister and i. >> reporter: chris can't remember what he asked for that year. >> i think, at his age, he might have been asking me for a girlfriend. >> reporter: and he got it, 12 years later. >> definitely, a christmas miracle. >> that just warms your heart to see how things are connected. >> you got to love that one. liz and chris burd displayed that santa photo at their wedding. and now, they have shared their story with america. >>> comin
one of the children elmer held 12 years ago is now his own son-in-law. >> it was unique. especially at first. >> reporter: it was all discovered by accident, when chris byrd got engaged to elmer's mother, liz. chris' mother was pulling out old photos. when she looked at santa, something clicked. or in this case, jingles. >> she gave me a call, looking at an old santa picture. it looks like liz's dad, elmer. >> i knew it was my dad. i remember going to the mall that year...
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federal law. the department's responsibility to enforce the controlled substances act remains unchanged. but several former doj officials who spoke to cnn said that likely won't be the end of it. former attorney general under president george w. bush alberto gonzales laid out the options facing eric holder and the justice department. option one, lock the users up. >> go to washington state and arrest and prosecute those in possession of mare juwa marijuat for the defendant to say, wait a minute, i got a state law that says this is not lawful. at that point, the department can raise the issue of preem preemption and say the federal government laws preempt state laws in this regard. >> reporter: option two, fight it out in the courts. >> sue the state of washington and the state of colorado, take them to court and say, just say outright that in this field, the federal government has preempted and that the law has to fall. >> reporter: option three, cut off federal money to law enforcement. >> simply
federal law. the department's responsibility to enforce the controlled substances act remains unchanged. but several former doj officials who spoke to cnn said that likely won't be the end of it. former attorney general under president george w. bush alberto gonzales laid out the options facing eric holder and the justice department. option one, lock the users up. >> go to washington state and arrest and prosecute those in possession of mare juwa marijuat for the defendant to say, wait a...
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those in the dissenting opinion argued federal law shouldn't trump state law finding father knowingly abandoned his parental responsibilities in every respect. lawyers for dustin brown say, quote, he is a good parent and veronica is happy, healthy and thriving. since she went to live with her biological father, the couple say they have only been allowed to speak with her once. >> we told her we loved her, and she said i love you, too, and that was it. >> but matt and melanie haven't given up. they are taking their case to the united states supreme court. >> you don't ever stop fighting for your child, ever. >> the united states supreme court, according to our legal experts, doesn't take that many cases. they get 7,000 cases a year, and they take about 80. why do you think they should take this one? >> so many families have been hurt by the misuse of this law, and, you know, we've said before, too, we don't think it's necessarily a bad law or bad intentions, but it's definitely being misused. it doesn't apply. she wasn't remove for an existent indian home. never with an indian home. wi
those in the dissenting opinion argued federal law shouldn't trump state law finding father knowingly abandoned his parental responsibilities in every respect. lawyers for dustin brown say, quote, he is a good parent and veronica is happy, healthy and thriving. since she went to live with her biological father, the couple say they have only been allowed to speak with her once. >> we told her we loved her, and she said i love you, too, and that was it. >> but matt and melanie haven't...
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they could just rewrite the law and the culture of the country, saying gay people have an equal right to get married in every state under the u.s. constitution. that's the big kahuna for advocates of gay marriage. but they can do a lot of things short of that. one thing they could do is strike down the federal law, the defense of marriage act, which says for federal purposes, 1,000 laws, tax benefits, access to people in hospitals, marriage is only between a man and a woman. they could just strike down that one and leave the rest up to the states. >> there's a whole range of things they could do. are the justices in any way influenced by the changing public opinion on this issue? we've seen a really dramatic shift in favor of gay marriage. >> that's the most interesting question in this case, dan. ten years ago, the supreme court would have decided this one way, probably unanimously or close to that. ten years from now, it will go the other direction. we're right at the hinge of history on this issue. does the supreme court crystallize what seems to be this emerging consensus, as you
they could just rewrite the law and the culture of the country, saying gay people have an equal right to get married in every state under the u.s. constitution. that's the big kahuna for advocates of gay marriage. but they can do a lot of things short of that. one thing they could do is strike down the federal law, the defense of marriage act, which says for federal purposes, 1,000 laws, tax benefits, access to people in hospitals, marriage is only between a man and a woman. they could just...
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so we have to kill these gun laws that allow them -- the law enforcement has been trained and they're the only ones i feel that should have guns in public. >> this case has gotten a lot of attention, national attention, in some ways compared to the trayvon martin case. what are your thoughts about that? >> i don't think it's -- it just happened to be an african-american child and the nonafrican-american person that pulled the trigger. i think that's the only comparison. but i don't think the reason is the same. i think the reason for this gentleman was strictly anger and having the availability of a weapon. >> when people think about jordan davis, what should they remember? >> remember he's a 17-year-old child and you have a 17 or 15 or 16-year-old child, you know. and if some stranger tells you, gives you an order to turn your music down, most of the time they won't, most of the time they will give you a smart lip or whatever. but you as an adult, as parents, we don't expect people in the world to just gun down a child because of that. we don't expect a child to lose his life and oth
so we have to kill these gun laws that allow them -- the law enforcement has been trained and they're the only ones i feel that should have guns in public. >> this case has gotten a lot of attention, national attention, in some ways compared to the trayvon martin case. what are your thoughts about that? >> i don't think it's -- it just happened to be an african-american child and the nonafrican-american person that pulled the trigger. i think that's the only comparison. but i don't...
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. >> reporter: it's sounding uncomfortably like the life of her late mother in law, princess diana, who was hounded by the media. we have just learned that william has canceled a public appearance tonight. kate is understandably lying low, she had been schedule to appear at the london premiere et hobbit this wednesday. that will depend on her medical condition. dan? >>> this morning, the two australian djs are basically in hiding. but there really is no hiding from the global tsunami of outrage headed in their direction, and now, new questions about whether they may have actually broken the law here. our coverage continues this morning with cecilia vega who's in sydney, australia. cecilia? >> reporter: boy, you know the word "tragedy" is on just every front page in sydney and so are the faces of those two djs. they haven't spoken publicly since this joke went so wrong. it's not just the mounting headlines. >> we have got another huge, huge show tonight. >> reporter: the two australian djs who radio prank took a tragic turn, soon may have to face australian police. new questions this mor
. >> reporter: it's sounding uncomfortably like the life of her late mother in law, princess diana, who was hounded by the media. we have just learned that william has canceled a public appearance tonight. kate is understandably lying low, she had been schedule to appear at the london premiere et hobbit this wednesday. that will depend on her medical condition. dan? >>> this morning, the two australian djs are basically in hiding. but there really is no hiding from the global...
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this is also in part a law which would force trading houses to declare the payments that they make to the resource rich countries. so why would they veto against it? you have to understand, and i'm not trying to justify anything here, the commodity trading business is a huge contributor to tax revenues here. 20 billion swiss francs is year is what we're talking about. takes very secretive have i. you have big trading houses and they want low taxes and political stability and i'm sure there's a huge lobby really lobbying for this law not to be passed. but really this is at odds with other legislation which is now being pushed forth bri the u.s. and eu in terms of anti-drupgs and anti-bribery. so a big blow to the regulators. >> interesting, karl lycarolyn. thanks for that. daniel, i want to get your view on oil majors. >> as always, it will depend on the path of oil prices and if we don't really honestly expect a big appreciation, i think for next year the outlook is particularly more advantageous for oim makers than it would for other natural resource stocks. >> according to the chief
this is also in part a law which would force trading houses to declare the payments that they make to the resource rich countries. so why would they veto against it? you have to understand, and i'm not trying to justify anything here, the commodity trading business is a huge contributor to tax revenues here. 20 billion swiss francs is year is what we're talking about. takes very secretive have i. you have big trading houses and they want low taxes and political stability and i'm sure there's a...
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working with them was a third- year northwestern law school student named katie marie zouhary. she was assigned to re-examine the original confessions, and her research helped change the case. >> katie marie zouhary: i think when you look at a confession on a piece of paper, a court- reported confession, a handwritten confession, it seems like all the pieces are in place. but what you don't see is the 17-year-old in the room by himself with the police officers; what you don't see is that confession next to the other confessions so you're able to see that these things don't match up. >> pitts: zouhary discovered the boys confessions contained different accounts of the crimes, from the chronology to their own nicknames. >> zouhary: they get the framework right but they don't get the details right. and if any two of them had gotten the details right, that would be one thing, but when you look at each of these confession, line by line, in the way that we did, it's pretty glaring that there is no cohesive story here. >> pitts: last year, based on the new d.n.a. evidence and katie ma
working with them was a third- year northwestern law school student named katie marie zouhary. she was assigned to re-examine the original confessions, and her research helped change the case. >> katie marie zouhary: i think when you look at a confession on a piece of paper, a court- reported confession, a handwritten confession, it seems like all the pieces are in place. but what you don't see is the 17-year-old in the room by himself with the police officers; what you don't see is that...
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there are several countries, 15 countries, that have to agree to change this law. all the places where she will be queen. certainly when this baby is born, if it is born, it won't be automatically that she becomes queen, but they're working towards it. it's not true just yet, but if it's a girl, i'm sure she would become queen. it wouldn't be acceptable if her younger brother leapfrogged her when it did come to william passing on the throne. >> well, it is what almost 2013, isn't it? max foster, thank you very much. keep an eye on things for us, if you would. do appreciate it. >>> also, want to update another story that we've been following. former president george h.w. bush has been in and out of the hospital for complications related to bronchitis. his spokesman jim mcgrath tells cnn, "yet yessed was a really good day. spirits are high. aided by another solid houstonian texans been. he still has the cough, which causes him pain, so long as he has that, he's not anxious to go anywhere." the former president is 88 years old. >>> also making news, millionaire mogul
there are several countries, 15 countries, that have to agree to change this law. all the places where she will be queen. certainly when this baby is born, if it is born, it won't be automatically that she becomes queen, but they're working towards it. it's not true just yet, but if it's a girl, i'm sure she would become queen. it wouldn't be acceptable if her younger brother leapfrogged her when it did come to william passing on the throne. >> well, it is what almost 2013, isn't it? max...
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and it follows what was arguably the most bizarre day in his month-long run from the law. [ sirens blaring ] instead of being deported to belize in handcuffs on thursday, a seemingly unconscious john mcafee is wheeled into a hospital on a gurney. mcafee's month-long game of cat and mouse with authorities in two countries, ended with a sudden emergency. the software anti-virus pioneer, apparently suffering from a heart problem thursday morning, became unresponsive in this immigration detention center. mcafee telling abc news -- >> i simply passed out. and i think that's the combination of stress and everything else. i hit my head. >> reporter: a dramatic scene, with this ambulance powering through a thicket of cameramen. mcafee, in the back of the ambulance, lying prone on a headboard, eyes closed. then, the chase. tv crews careening through guatemala's narrow streets. the press, pursuing mcafee on this gurney, right into the emergency room. as medics transferred him to a bed and began undressing him, suddenly, the man who appeared nearly dead, spoke. >> please, not in front of the press. p
and it follows what was arguably the most bizarre day in his month-long run from the law. [ sirens blaring ] instead of being deported to belize in handcuffs on thursday, a seemingly unconscious john mcafee is wheeled into a hospital on a gurney. mcafee's month-long game of cat and mouse with authorities in two countries, ended with a sudden emergency. the software anti-virus pioneer, apparently suffering from a heart problem thursday morning, became unresponsive in this immigration detention...